All but one of the following statements describes the necessity of the blood testis barrier. Select the one statement that does not describe a necessity of the blood testis barrier.
◦ Sperm can only be produced at temperatures lower than body temperature. Inflammation in the testis could raise the temperature too high to produce sperm.
◦ Spermatogenesis produces new combinations of genes and chromosomes that results in unique antigens that the immune system may see as foreign.
◦ Foreign antigens produced by the newly formed sperm could initiate an autoimmune response against the developing sperm.
◦ Spermatocytes undergo meiosis only during puberty, well after the immune system has come to recognize "self" from "non-self" cells.
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